Correspondence, both personal and concerning Deutsche Liga fuer Menschenrechte, Demokratische Fluechtlingsfuersorge, and other organizations, including letters from Konrad Adenauer, Philipp Auerbach, Roger Baldwin, Eduard Benes, Willy Brandt, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Ferencz, Manfred George, Nahum Goldmann, Emil J. Gumbel, Paul Hertz, Wieland Herzfelde, Theodor Heuss, Hermann Kesten, Joachim Lipschitz, Erich Lueth, Kurt Pinthus, Joachim Prinz, Hanns Reissner, Stephen Wise, and Norbert Wollheim

Manuscripts of books and articles by Grossmann on numerous topics

Transcripts of Nuremberg war-crimes trials and other postwar German trials of Nazi criminals

Correspondence, clippings, memoranda, and reports on restitution and reparations, refugees and stateless persons after World War II, East Germany, the Jewish Question and the State of Israel, Neo-Nazism and antisemitism, and human rights; United Nations reports on migration and other matters

Manuscripts, clippings and other research material on Carl von Ossietzky, for Grossmann's book about him, including correspondence with Rosalinda von Ossietzky

Speech by Grossmann about antisemitism; clippings; obituaries. [old AR 1591]

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Born in Berlin on May 21, 1897, Kurt (Richard) Grossmann-Gilbert was a journalist and general secretary of the Deutsche Liga fuer Menschenrechte from 1926 to 1933. He organized its fight against injustice in German law courts. Grossmann was active in cases such as that of the Russian war prisoner, Jacobowsky (executed and then adjudged innocent), and that of Walter Bullerjahn who had been imprisoned as the result of false witness. Warned that the Nazis were about to arrest him, he escaped to Prague in 1933. There he established and directed the Demokratische Fluechtlingsfuersorge (Relief for Refugees by democrats) and wrote brochures against Nazism. In 1938 he went to Paris and in 1939 to New York, where he was an executive assistant to the World Jewish Congress. After World War II , Grossmann became a spokesman for Jewish refugees, restitution and compensation. He died in St. Petersburg, Florida, on March 2, 1972

7-page inventory, 114-page name-index to correspondence

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